[svgwg] Issue: Target attribute on `a`: consistency with HTML or with existing implementations? marked as Linking chapter

AmeliaBR has just labeled an issue for https://github.com/w3c/svgwg as "Linking chapter":

== Target attribute on `a`: consistency with HTML or with existing implementations? ==
As discussed in Issue #315 and PR#409:

The `href` and `target` attributes on SVG `<a>` are inconsistent with their equivalents on HTML links, being exposed in the DOM as `SVGAnimatedString` objects instead of regular `DOMString` primitives.

`href` has a lot of usage & so is probably too much of a web compat risk to change. But @dstorey argued that [usage is low enough](https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#V8SVGAElement_Target_AttributeGetter)) that consistency with HTML should win out.

This would be a change from all implementations, and potentially a breaking one.

We agreed [on the telcon today](https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/409#issuecomment-412654080) to only make the change if we can get multiple implementers all committing to ship code at approximately the same time.

So:
@ewilligers @dstorey @longsonr @smfr
Is this worth making a change? Do you think that you can get that change through your codebase review, assuming commitments from the other browsers?

Note that in #175 we discussed making `SVGAnimatedString` more string-like with `putForwards` and `stringifier` properties (which would minimize but not eliminate the SVG vs HTML compat issues), but that also won't make it into SVG 2.0 unless we have clear implementer commitments.




See https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/526

Received on Monday, 13 August 2018 23:56:12 UTC